The name of this company has fixed in the users' mindset as expensive but invariably high-quality components for the PC. Next year, ASUSTek is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and on the Russian market the company has been successfully working for 10 years already. ASUS's leading positions are firmly held in many ways due to the rational marketing policies. Just another proof of that is the decision to launch the manufacture of cheap motherboards under the ASROCK trademark. This is very similar to the situation on the car market. Even though Toyota is associated in the consumer mindset as a manufacturer of no-frills inexpensive Japanese cars, it also produces prestigious technically perfect Lexus cars. Asus follows suit and can't afford diluting the quality of the brand name.
In the 3dfx epoch, ASUS started producing boards with support for 3D acceleration. By that time, the market was represented by such chips like Intel i740, nVidia Riva 128 and ATI Rage II. By the way, ASUS was the only third-party company to be able producing video cards on those chips. Accelerators made by ASUS have always been distinguished by excellent shipment bundles, the superb quality of video cards themselves, innovative design and, naturally, the price which was much higher than that offered by competitors. By now the situation is as it used to be then. That is, Asus video cards are fast, stable and the shipment bundle puts the competitors at a loss.
Today we'll be looking into another video card from Asus that we received for testing. This is Asus V9280S based on NVidia's Ti4200 chip with support for AGP8x (codenamed as NV28). As ever, Asus hasn't disappointed its amateurs and added some nice novelties into the new video card. Anyway, let's examine them step by step...
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Jan 5, 2003, 11:58 PM
